The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-07-22
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Many Curious Charities dispensed d.
Hotel AIen In New York.


s'There goes one Of theln,n said Clerk
Hord, of the Victoria hotel.
He pointed to q ncstly dressed and gem
tlemRrly appearing man, who was climb
ing up the first fight Of stairs from the
Office. He had bccn talking about tina
charities dispensed by the hosels, and had
remarked that few people hl4d any idea OF
the amount given away By hotel propri-
etors every day.
II don't believe there's hotel in New
York which does not daily feed great
many poor families. Naturally there Is i
good deal OF waste, especially where
hotels are run, on the American plan at
so much day, and there could be no bet.
ter way OF disposing Of the surplus.
Every morning at the back kitchen door
Of the Victoria you win find q score ar
more Of poor people waiting for their dole.
The same sight can be seen at all the
other hotels"
''But about our friend who just went IN
stairs! What has he to do with this back
door business"
''Oh, that's a horse of another colo-.
We have three grades of charities. First
there are the poor people who make no dis
Yuise of their poverty aud 60 direct to the
respectable element that comes to the
counter and asks for something to eat.
II they look shabby, as they generally do.
we refer them to the kitchen, where the
servants eat, and they get good meal.
But they can't get it every day. We keep
tally on the faces Of these fellows, ard
when they try to become chronic we chase
them of. The third class Is the most
interesting. 1t ls eminently genteel, like
the man you saw climbing the stairs to
the dining room few minutes ago. For
one reason or another man may be
stranded in big town like this for days
at time. He has no friends, and until
relief comes he is half desperate. Scarcely
o day passes when one of this class does
not come in here to the desk, tell his story.
and ask us to give him something to eat.
lie is well dressed There Is nothing In
his appearance that would offend any Of
the guests in the dining room, which is
matter We have to consider, Of course We
ask IL he has ever been here before. He
says no. II he was q regular we should
know him in minute for we don't pro-
pose to run q carayEnsary for beats or
trampS. Then, in order TO make him feel
the embarrassment of his position as little
as possible, we give him note to present
to the head waiter when he enters tile
dining room, and no is treated with just
the same courtesy as one of the regular
guests.
''Do You know it is q funny thing, but
we have entertained many an angel un-
awarcs in this way. Not great while
ago very impressive looking man came
to the desk, and, saying he wis Ia bad
luck and perfect stranger in the city,
asked US to give him breakfast. He
said he had Just landed from Australia
and was awaiting o remittance from Eng
land. Well, we took no stock In that part
of his story, but he got the breakfast all
the same, and he was most profuse in his
thanks. 1t must have been nearly
month before we saw him again. Ihcu
he entered the hotel very modestly. recogc
nized the clerk who had befriended him
and asked for suite OF rooms on the par
lor floor. At the same time he asked the
clerk to take care Of about e2, 600, mostly
in English money. 1t turned out that he
was the young sen Of an English lord,
who had been trotting around the globe
and had simply missed connections when
he reached New York He was with rs
for three months, and before he left had
knocked large hole In that e2, ,000
81 could mention great many other
instances where our charity patients have
turned up tramps. That's pure luck.
We never think Of it when we oblige
them, but we naturally get the benefit IL
their ship comes in"
stYou win never find such charities dis
pensed," said Clerk Wall, Of the ioff-
man, ''at hotels where all the dining Is
done la carte, as 1t is here Whatever
charities we have to give are bestowed
outright in money You can see at
glance that where every meal is cooked TO
order tl.>:. s.as.it he the xvasta there would
be in hotel run on tho American plan, ut
so much u day, where more or less waste
Is always TO bo found New York Sun
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